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Xe'ivspapers. — The number of newspapers published in the 

 United Kingdom, received under the provisions of the Copy- 

 right Act during the 3^ear, was 3,394, comprising 235,926 

 single numbers. Of these newspapers, 1,228 were published in 

 London and its suburbs ; 1,652 in other parts of England and 

 Wales and in the Channel Islands ; 284 in Scotland ; and 230 

 in Ireland. Eleven sets, comprising 828 single numbers, were 

 received by Colonial Copyright ; 265 sets, comprising 45,641 

 single numbers of colonial and foreign newspapers, have been 

 presented ; and 79 sets, comprising 19 volumes and 14,711 single 

 numbers of current colonial and foreign newspapers, have been 

 purchased. 



Miscellaneous. — 6,981 articles not included in the foregoing 

 paragraphs have been received in the Department. These 

 consist of Parliamentary Papers, single sheets, and other 

 miscellaneous items. 



The total number of articles enumerated above as having" 

 been received in the Department during the year, exclusive 

 of newspapers, is 123,205. 



Acquisitions of Special Interest. — The following is a list of 

 the most important and interesting books acquired by purchase- 

 during the year. It includes two English incunabula and a; 

 remarkable collection of English news-sheets printed in the 

 years 1620, 1621. 



Cicero : Rhetorica, ti-anslated into Italian in the 13th 

 century by Galeotto Guidotti. Printed in Northern Italy 

 before 1480. The printer has not yet been identified. 



A contemporary report in French of the proceedings of the 

 meeting of the Etats Generaux at Tours, January- March, 

 1484. Printed by Antoine Caillaut, Paris, c. 1484, 



An English translation of a Bull of Pope Innocent VIII., 

 dated 26 April, 1486, on the marriage of Henry VII. and 

 Elizabeth of York, and on Henry's right and that of his 

 children to the throne of England. Printed by William de 

 Machlinia, 1486. 



The Book of Good Manners. Printed by Richard Pynson, 

 London, 1494. The only copy known. 



Dino del Garbo : Expositio super tertia &c. parte fen 

 Canonis Auicene. Printed by Bonetus Locatellus, Venice, 1495. 



Albertus de Saxonia : Quaestiones super libros Posteriorum. 

 Printed by Bonetus Locatellus, Venice, 1497. 



Agostino Dati : Elegantiae minores. Printed by Johann 

 Winterberg, Vienna, 1499. 



Cardinal John Fisher : Treatise concernynge the fruytfull 

 sayenges of David the Kinge in the seuen penylecyal psalmes. 

 Richard Pynson, London, 1510. 



Accidentia ex Stanbrigiar.a editione, Richard Pynson, 

 London, c. 1520. 



